Jan Monchablon

thumb|upright=1.1|Jan Monchablon (date unknown) '''Jean Baptiste Ferdinand Monchablon''', known as '''Jan Monchablon''' (6 September 1854 – 2 October 1904) was a French landscape painter.

== Biography == thumb|upright=1.3|Lovers at the Well (date unknown) He was born in Châtillon-sur-Saône. His father was an official with the local health department. Monchablon began his education at the Collège Notre-Dame in Nantes. In 1875, after working as a private tutor, he became a professor in Quimper. Six years later, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Jean-Paul Laurens.<ref name="R">[http://www.rehs.com/Jean_Ferdinand_Monchablon_Bio.html Biography and appreciation] by Janet Whitmore @ Rehs Galleries.</ref> From 1883 to 1884, he took further lessons in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel. Finding himself attracted to the works of the Flemish masters, he took a study trip to the Netherlands in 1886. It was at that time he began signing his name "Jan", instead of "Jean".

Upon his return, Monchablon married Fanny Julien, a pianist he had met while studying at the École, and they decided to settle in his hometown, leasing property there and planting a small vineyard to help defray expenses.<ref name="R" /> Despite his relatively isolated location, he continued to exhibit regularly at the Salon and won several medals there as well as at the Exposition Universelle (1900).<ref name="R" />

Monchablon was admitted to the Legion d'honneur in 1895.<ref>{{Base Léonore|LH 1902/33|id=266933}}</ref> He died in 1904 in Châtillon-sur-Saône.

His friend Roland Knoedler (an American art dealer), commissioned Antoine Bourdelle to create a monument in his honor, which was destroyed during World War II. A replacement was later created by the sculptor Marcel Joosen (born 1943).

Many of Monchablon's paintings are in small museums in the United States, including the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California.

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==External links== {{commons category-inline|Jan Monchablon}} * [http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/monchablon_jean_ferdinand/artist/20086/ Arcadja Auctions: More works by Monchablon] * [https://hagginmuseum.org/collections/monchablon-jean-ferdinand-jan/early-afternoon/ Jan Monchablon's works at the Haggin Museum]

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